Like
most Americans today, frustrated by the daily D.C. assault on everything
I believe in, I often wonder how much difference I can really make and
if I wouldn’t be better off to just go fishing with my kids and
wait for the fireworks to begin, once the people have truly had enough.

Then
with precision timing, just as I’m about to let myself off the
hook and find a more enjoyable way to spend my time, a glimmer of hope
shines through and I am reminded of why I research and write, trying
over and over again to reach fellow Americans and bring them together
in tangible strategies to reclaim their lost nation.

I’ve
been researching and writing for many years now, with over 2000 columns
published. Is it doing any good? – I ask myself now and then.

Back
in March of 2006, long before anyone ever thought about Tea Partying,
I wrote and released a two part series titled The
People Still Have Power, I and II
– intended to remind citizens that they really do still have the
power to retake control of their runaway government, if they only re-learn
where that power is and how to use it.

Four
years later, I’m seeing very strong signs that some are indeed
re-learning where their power is and how to use it, correctly. I should
have re-released these two pieces once the Tea Party arrived on the
scene. We might have moved in the right direction quicker and avoided
a few political pit falls.

Calhoun
County Michigan

In
2008, we learned that more than fifty percent of Republican precinct
seats sat vacant across the country. More than thirty percent of Democrat
precinct seats were vacant too. How could this be? This is where the
people’s power is in our political system. The platform, leadership
and policies of the political parties is set at the local level, from
the ground up, in the local precincts - yet those seats sat empty.

By
late 2009, people were beginning to wake up and look at those precincts
for the first time in decades, and those who understood the power in
those largely ignored venues, were about to begin the process of real
change.

In
early 2010, I was contacted by Linda Garcia, a regular reader of my
column who had had enough and was begging to know what she could do
to make a real difference in her community and the nation, for sake
of her four children and the future of freedom and liberty. I told her
about her precinct…

Linda
researched her county precincts in Calhoun County Michigan and learned
that her county GOP precincts were sitting seventy-three percent vacant,
with only twenty-seven percent of the delegate seats occupied and that
it had been sitting that way for a very long time.

In
March of 2010, Linda Garcia decided to take it upon herself to change
that.

Like
all great ideas, movements and achievements, she started with one believer,
herself. It would not be easy to find other believers, teach them about
the power of the precinct, and get others to lay down their daily routines
long enough to make a real difference. But it was possible…

By
the May deadline for precinct applicants, Linda had single handedly
recruited and trained many new GOP delegate applicants, as local GOP
insiders caught wind of her efforts.

The
official application period ended in May, however write-in candidates
could be recruited up through August 3rd, allowing more time to recruit
new delegates for both Linda and GOP insiders.

Linda
and her recruits simply kept going, recruiting write-in candidates and
by the August meeting of the new Calhoun County Republican Party, Linda
Garcia had 137 county delegates – the old GOP guard had only 54…

Linda
and her team had increased Calhoun County GOP precinct occupancy from
twenty-seven percent to sixty-four percent in just a few short months,
and her new conservative voting bloc now represented seventy-two percent
in Calhoun County.

Dirty
Tricks from the Old Guard

It
took Garcia five months of hard work to gain a voting majority in her
county GOP. But it took members of the local old GOP guard only six
hours to sabotage that achievement.

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With
seventy-two percent of county delegates firmly in her voting bloc, Garcia
hoped to send at least sixteen of her new delegates to the state convention,
the number representative of her new voting majority. When the lying,
shouting and manipulation of the Roberts Rules system was over, Linda
would send only eight of her new delegates to state, herself being one.

Linda
and her team had worked hard, but it was dirty tricks from the old guard
that would win the battle that night. Despite her seventy-two percent
voting majority, she ended that marathon evening with thirty-three percent
of the delegates heading to the state convention instead of seventy-two
percent. A lesson learned…

One
Bad Apple

The
individual responsible for sabotaging Garcia’s otherwise complete
victory was someone she had recruited and trained. This individual was
brought into the precinct and trained by Linda Garcia. He was welcomed
into her home, trusted with his part of a mission Linda had poured her
heart, energy and resources into for five months.

In
the end, he was not a patriot, a friend, or a fellow public servant
seeking change. He was just another wannabe politician seeking personal
gain and willing to do anything to gain favor with the old GOP guard,
angered by Garcia’s efforts to inject new conservative values
into their private play pen.

While
Garcia was out of the main room caucusing with some of her new delegates
in an effort to organize her voting bloc, this gentleman was inside
the main room dropping names, including mine as if we were old friends,
and working to undermine all of Garcia’s hard work.

When
the final votes were tallied, Linda ended up with half of the delegates
she should have had going to the state convention. The sabotage had
worked and the old GOP guard had held onto their convention power, despite
their reported ACORN-like tactics in the county delegate race.

The
Final Outcome

Did
the sabotage really work? At the end of the day, no matter which delegates
go to state, they are going to state to represent the will and official
position of the County GOP, which in Calhoun, is now controlled by Garcia’s
seventy-two percent voting majority.

The
sabotage only left old guard insiders in a position of going to state
with eight of Garcia’s delegates standing watch. The delegates
going to state must carry the message of Calhoun County, which can now
be set by Garcia and her 137 new delegates, her seventy-two percent
voting majority.

If
that committee attempts to carry any other message to state, delegates
may have trouble holding on to those positions upon returning to Calhoun
County.

As
for the saboteur…

His
name is Steven
Mobley and he is a Republican House of Representatives candidate
for Michigan’s 62nd District. This is NOT the kind of new ethical
public servants we seek. This is just another wannabe politician who
is out to serve himself, proving once again that dirty politics is not
just in Washington DC or political insiders.

Small
town outsiders become corrupt political insiders very fast, when their
agenda is not that of the people. This is a glaring example of the difference
between politician and public servant.

Obviously,
Mobley won’t get much support in Calhoun County after such a public
display. Every individual in the room watched as he played power-broker
in his own self-interest.

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When
the rest of his district finds out what Mobley is really all about,
he won’t get conservative support from anyone else either. No
more “lesser
evil” candidates, remember?

Ethical
people really do have the power to take their nation back from unethical
politicians. To use that power properly, accountability must begin at
home, in this case with Mr. Mobley.

Mobley
is currently an icaucus endorsed Tea Party candidate. But he represents
everything that both groups dislike most about politics and politicians.

JB Williams
is a business man, a husband, a father, and a writer. A no nonsense
commentator on American politics, American history, and American philosophy.
He is published nationwide and in many countries around the world. He
is also a Founder of Freedom Force USA and a staunch conservative actively
engaged in returning the power to the right people in America.

Then with precision
timing, just as I’m about to let myself off the hook and find a
more enjoyable way to spend my time, a glimmer of hope shines through
and I am reminded of why I research and write, trying over and over again
to reach fellow Americans...